"Mark, to me, when I played with him, I looked up to him," Canseco said last weekend. "I idolized him for a lot of reasons -- the guy was on the field, he was off the field. It haunts me till this day that I said those things about him, even though obviously they were true.

McGwire is now the Los Angeles Dodgers hitting coach and missed the team’s 25th anniversary celebration of their 1989 World Series victory over the San Francisco Giants.